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MANILA, Aug 9 (Reuters) - The Philippines began a massive clean-up on Thursday after floods swept the capital and nearby provinces, forcing residents to wade through shoulder-deep waters in some places after nearly two weeks of monsoon rains killed 91 people. Power, water and communications services were restored as floodwaters started to recede, allowing many to return home to fix their houses. Nearly 300,000 people remained in temporary shelters, disaster officials said.

MANILA (Reuters) - Deadly torrential rains submerged much of the Philippine capital and surrounding areas on Tuesday, forcing nearly 270,000 people to flee their homes with more flooding expected in the north of the country as a tropical storm passes through the region, officials said. Steady rains for the past 10 days, killing more than 50 people, are set to continue until Wednesday, the Philippines weather bureau said, fuelled by tropical storm "Haikui" in the Philippine Sea northeast of Taiwan.

By Manoj Kumar and Satarupa Bhattacharjya NEW DELHI, July 26 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold off on widely anticipated fuel subsidy and retail reforms because of renewed opposition from party colleagues and coalition allies, leaving budget targets in tatters and rattling investors. Members of Singh's Congress Party and senior government officials told Reuters that no movement was expected until at least the second week of September, despite market expectations of an announcement this week or the next.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government raised the possibility of a drought for the first time this year and said on Thursday that ministers would meet next week to discuss the lack of monsoon rains, which define output for the major consumer and producer of food crops. It will be the first time the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on drought has met since 2009, which saw the driest monsoon in nearly four decades in Asia's third-largest economy, where more than half of arable land is rain-fed.

(Repeats story with no changes to text) * India collaborating with U.S., Britain in project * Mission aims to create 15-day and longer forecasts * Many farmers still rely on traditional forecasting methods By Ross Colvin and Jatindra Dash NEW DELHI/BHUBANESHWAR, July 20 (Reuters) - Scientists aided by supercomputers are trying to unravel one of Mother Nature's biggest mysteries -- the vagaries of the summer monsoon rains that bring life, and sometimes death, to India every year.

* Rainfall in July, August seen within averages * Possibility of a drought year ruled out as of now (Adds details, quotes, background) By Ratnajyoti Dutta NEW DELHI, June 22 (Reuters) - India's crucial monsoon rains are still expected to be average in 2012, the weather office said on Friday, helping to allay concerns over farm output in the major producer and consumer of food stuffs triggered by sparse rainfall in the last few weeks. The weather office had already forecast an average monsoon in April, before the rainy season started, although with slightly heavier rains.

Dear Tom, What is the Arizona monsoon? —Jason Kopec Dear Jason, "Monsoon" refers to a seasonal wind that blows steadily from land to sea during the winter and from sea to land during the summer. Derived from the Arabic mausim, meaning season, monsoon was first applied to winds over the Arabian Sea, which blow for six months from the northeast and for six months from the southwest. In winter, air over large land masses is colder (meaning higher air pressure)